Packer inspectors in debate over meat bill in Congress
A White House conference on meat inspection policy raised President Roosevelt's push for a strong law. lawmakers debated Beveridge amendments vs a House substitute, with emphasis on court review, civil service, and cost. Minority reports urged a cost to government and stricter inspector qualifications.
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Adams
Representative Adams
Wadsworth
Cannon
Lamb
Virginia
Bowie
Alabama
Chandler
Mississippi
House Committee of Agriculture
Secretary of Agriculture
United States
Beveridge
Haugen
Iowa
Davis
Minnesota
Haugen and Davis
Civil Service
House Committee On Agriculture
Consular Service Promotes Sixty One Officers by Merit
The President sent sixty one consular officers for promotion marking the largest single day slate and tying promotions to efficiency records. Only two original appointments appear, with routes including Seoul Roubaix Cork Bremen Rimouski Valparaiso and more across Abyssinia Peru Canada India and Europe. Names span Ohio Indiana Kentucky and West Virginia with postings to Adis Ababa Buenos Aires Callao and others.
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Washington
Senate
Root
Wilbur Carr
Consular Bureau
Congress
Haywood
Seoul
Korea
Honolulu
Chapman Coleman
Kentucky
Roubaix
France
Constantinople
Ohio
Indiana
West Virginia
Frank R. Powers
Adir Ababa
Abyssinia
Alban Gyder
Buenos Ayres
Argentine Republic
Samuel M. Taylor
Callao
Peru
Gustave Boutelspache
Monckton
N. B
Canada
George C. Cole
Dawson
Yukon Territory
Henry 8
Culver
Cork
Ireland
E. Haldeman
Dennison
Bombay
India
William T. Fee
Bremen
Germany
Edwin N. Gunsaulus
Rimouski
Quebec
John E. Hamilton
Cornwall
Ontario
Alexander Heingartner
Riga
Russia
Robert E. Mansfield
Lucerne
Switzerland
William W. Masterson
Batum
Alfred A. Winslow
Valparaiso
Chile
Mansfield Nominated for Judge by Ashland Delegates
Democrats of Ashland Morrow and Richland Counties met in Mansfield Ohio and nominated Edwin Mansfield of Shelby Richland on the first ballot. Richland held 60 votes split among Mansfield Mengert Cummings and Dickey with Mansfield winning 63 percent to 27 percent. Delegates endorsed Governor Pattison and Bryan resolutions.
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Commercial Tribune
Mansfield
Ashland
Morrow
Richland
Sixth Judicial District
Edwin Mansfield
Shelby
Richlad County
L C. Mengert
S. G. Cummings
J. Dickey
Mengert
Cummings
Dickey
Pattison
W. J. Bryan
Philadelphia bout ends in a six round draw
Harry Lewis of Philadelphia and Joe Gans fought a fast six round bout at the National Athletic Club tonight, with neither man gaining an advantage.
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Philadelphia
Harry Lewis
Joe Gans
National Athletic Club
Daniel Boone Statue Unveiled at Cherokee Park
A Boone statue by Enid Yandell was unveiled in Louisville's Cherokee Park with a Boone descendants reunion and a park pageant. Breckenridge Castleman gave the presentation speech. Colonel R Durett accepted for the park board as Miss Helen Stewart and about a dozen descendants attended.
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Daniel Boone
Cherokee Park
Boone
Enid Yandell
Louisville
Tod
C. C. Bickell
Breckenridge Castleman
Bickell
Board of Park Commissioners
R. Durett
Helen Stewart
Boonesboro
Appeal to Roosevelt Seeks Immigration Reform Aid
The Junior Order of United American Mechanics petitions President Roosevelt urging support for the immigration reform bill. Members stress the educational test feature as most important to the measure.
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Order of United American Mechanics
Roosevelt
Order
Obituary notices of politicians and notable figures
Obituary notices report the deaths of Patrick Charles Coogan national MP for East Tyrone in Dublin. Rev Edward B Hodge Presbyterian Church official in Philadelphia. Houghton publishing figure in Cambridge. Logan McPherson brother of Sherman McPherson in Hot Springs. Abraham Van West of Hamilton aged 78. Frances Mason Dickson in Asheville and Cincinnati burial details. services at 502 Prospect Place Avondale today at 2 PM.
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Edward B. Hodge
Board of Education
The
Presbyterian Church
Presbyterian Publishing Company
Philadelphia
Hodge
Charles Hodge
China
H. O. Houghton
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
Cambridge
Mass
Logan M'Pherson
United States
Sherman McPherson
Hot Springs
Ark
McPherson
Troy, O
Abraham van West
Hamilton
Cincinnati
Frances Mason Dickson
Asheville
N. C
Prospect Place
Avondale
Mysterious Myrtle Howard Dies in City Hospital
Myrtle Howard, a young woman of unknown background, died at City Hospital from pneumonia after a week in a strong ward while being treated for morphine withdrawal. She had become violent during delirium and refused to reveal her true identity, coming from Wheeling on May 14 to seek help.
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Myrtle Howard
City Hospital
Pennsylvania
Wheeling
Typhoid Cases Rise Again With 23 New Infections
The typhoid fever epidemic worsened with 23 new cases reported to the Health Department yesterday, raising this week’s total to 106 after 124 last week. Health Officer Allen urges continued precautions in sanitation and daily habits.
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Health Department
Allen
Waterloo Medal Bequeathed to Local Kestner Family
J P Kestner of 408 Main street holds a silver Waterloo medal once belonging to his grandfather Philip Kestner for bravery at the 1815 battle. The coin bears George Prince Regent 1815 on the obverse and Hanoverian Grenadier details on the reverse. Philip Kestner immigrated in 1881 and died in 1876. Monday marks the anniversary of the battle.
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J. P. Kestner
Main Street
Philip Kestner
Waterloo
Mr. Kestner
George Iit
England
George Prince Regent
Warning Cries Cost Boy Life In Street Tragedy
Two year old Morris Ashbrooke of 2607 Cook Street was run over and killed by a two horse wagon loaded with malt in front of Fire Company No 43 at Spring Grove Avenue and Alfred Street. Patrolman Finn and Fireman Purcell shouted but the boy moved into the wagon’s path as it left the fire house.
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Morris Ashbrooke
Cook Street
Spring Grove Avenue
Alfred Street
Ben Rympke
North Bend Road
Elmwood
O Bursachat
Finn
Purcell
Board of Public Service Inspects Streets
The Board tours Linwood Avondale Walnut Hills Clifton and Hyde Park after approving 250000 in street improvement bonds. Members W. S. Marx Anthony Herschede John R. Bender Charles A. Miller George E. Markley Neave city engineer Danenhower and others join the inspection to decide which streets to upgrade.
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Board of Public Service
Linwood
Avondale
Walnut Hills
Clifton
Hyde Park
W. 8. Marx
Anthony Herschede
John R. Bender
Charles A. Miller
George E. Markley
Neave
Danenhower
Fitzsimmons Independent Tel es Company to Incorporate
The Fitzsimmons Independent Telephone Company plans incorporation in Columbus this week with $100,000 capital. Three months hence it will operate in Cincinnati with Cincinnati and Chicago capitalists set to raise capital to $8,000,000. Philip Fitzsimmons recently left the Fitzsimmons Manufacturing Company.
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Fitzsimmons Independent /Telephone Company
Cincinnati
Columbus
Fitzsimmons
Queen City
Chicago
Philip Fitzsimmons
Fitzsimmons Manufacturing Company
Mayor Returns 27 Ordinances to Council Without Comment
Mayor Dempsey yesterday returned to Council twenty seven ordinances and resolutions without comment. He questioned the salary-raising ordinance for subordinates in the City Treasurer's office saying he did not disapprove but doubted its validity and criticized its form noting the term Board of Legislation is achronistic and the aim to require Council confirmation contradicts the municipal code.
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Dempsey
Board of Legislation
Governors Hanly and Hoch Meet in Claypool Hotel
Indiana Governor Hanly and officials visit Kansas Governor Hoch at his Claypool Hotel room at noon. Attending were Secretary of State Fred Sims Auditor Warren Bigler Attorney General Charles W. Miller and Railroad Commissioners Union B. Hunt and William J. Wood. They are greeted cordially and introduced.
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Commercial Tribune
Indianapolis
Hanly
W. E. Hoch
Kansas
Claypool Hotel
Fred Sims
Warren Bigler
Charles W. Miller
Union B. Hunt
William J. Wood
Indiana
Hoch
Longworths Dinner Guests in London
Mr and Mrs Bradley Martin hosted a dinner in honor of Mr and Mrs Nicholas Longworth followed by a concert featuring Mme Melba Kirkby Lunn Mme Altchevsky and Plancon. Afterward the Longworths attended a dance hosted by Savile Crossley.
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London
Bradley Martin
Nicholas Longworth
Mme. Melba
Kirkby Lunn Ang
Mme. Altchevsky
Plancon
Longworth
Savile Crossley
Fall through skylight injures Georgia Congressman Rufus E. Lester
Congressman Rufus E. Lester of Georgia is seriously injured after falling thirty feet through a Cairo Street skylight while on the roof seeking his grandchildren. Doctors say recovery is unlikely. Lester, 68, has a long political career and Confederate veteran status.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
Rufus E. Lester
Georgia
Cairo
Q Street
Lester
Savannah
River and Harbor Committee
Georgia State Senate
Plan to Relieve Oil Men Moves in Congress
About twenty House members met in Representative Southard's committee room to press for amending the railroad rate bill. They seek to allow oil producers and pipeline owners to transport their own oil through their pipelines, arguing current language misclassifies pipelines as common carriers and hurts independent oil firms in several states.
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Washindtoy
D.C
Commercial Tribune
Washington
House
Southard
Ohio
Indiana
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Kansas
Grosvenor
Dawes Cole
Mouser
Marietta
Emerson Denies Involvement in Parole Plot in Ohio Case
Columbus June 15 Bostetter case involves Lawson Emerson Clerk of the Supreme Court and an alleged bid to gain Cameron Bostetter’s parole from the Ohio Penitentiary Emerson repeats denial saying he spoke only with Harry Griffith at Union Station about Bostetter and parole details Griffith said the petition was paused after criticism of a prior parole for George Collier the embezzling head of the Department of Stationary Engineers
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Outlook
Columbus
Omio
Bostetter
Lawson E. Emerson
Supreme Court
Cameron Bostetter
Bunco
Ohio Penitentiary
Emerson
Harry Griffith
Union Station
Griffith
George Collier
Department of Stationary Engineers
Blind Pension Law Upheld Challenge in Ohio Supreme Court
The Ohio Supreme Court hears a case on the 1904 blind pension law's constitutionality. Plaintiff in error David T. Davies Jr., Auditor of Lucas County, bars James L. Boyles Negro from a $25 quarterly allowance, arguing the law's numerous limitations render it unconstitutional. Lower courts ruled against the Auditor.
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Commercial Tribune
Columbus
Ohio General Assembly
Supreme Court
David T. Davies, Jr
Lucas County
State of Ohio
James L. Boyles
Boyles
Davies
Common Pleas
Circuit Courts
Becomes College Head in Coshocton
The Rev. James H. Strauhn of Lynchburg Virginia was elected president of West Lafayette College, a Methodist Protestant institution near Coshocton Ohio. Strauhn serves as National President of the Methodist Protestant branch of the Christian Endeavor organization.
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Commercial Tribune
Coshocton
James, H. Strauhn
Lynchburg
West Lafayette College
Strauhn
Christian Endeavor Organization
Kansas City Southern Stockholders Create Chairman Post
In New York on June 15 stockholders of the Kansas City Southern Railway Company created the office of Chairman of the Board. Hermann Sielcken was elected to a chairmanship, while L. F. Loree, former president of the B&O and Rock Island, was elected to the Executive Committee.
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Coal Company
I. C. Special Dispatch
Commercial Tribune
New York
Missouri and Illinois Coal Company
Illinois Central Railroad Company
Missouri
Kansas City Southern Railway Company
Hermann Sielcken
Sielcken
L. F. Loree
B. & O. Railroad Company
Rock Island
Appeal Dismissed in Columbus Railroad Case
In Columbus on June 15 the Circuit Court dismissed the stockholders appeal of the Columbus Sandusky and Hocking Railroad. Judge Evans in Common Pleas Court ordered a 25 percent assessment against stockholders and they appealed.
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Sandusky &Hocking Railroad
Commercial Tribune
Columbus. O
Circuit Court
Columbus, Sandusky & Hocking Railroad
Evans
Common Pleas Court
Philadelphia & Erie declares 3 percent semiannual dividend
The Board of Directors of the Philadelphia & Erie Railroad Company declared a 3 percent semi-annual dividend payable June 30 to stockholders of record June 21.
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Commercial Tribune
Philadelphia
Philadelphia & Erie Railroad Company
Car Builders Elect Head
W B Fowler of the Canadian Pacific Railroad was chosen president of the National Carbuilders Association at its Atlantic City meeting on June 15.
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CAR Builders Elect Head
W. B. Fowler
Commercial Tribune
Atlantic City
N. J
National Carbuilders’ Association
Canadian Pacific Railroad
Railway Men's Association Holds Annual Meeting
The Railway Employees' Outing Association met at the C. and O. offices. William F. Leonard was re-elected General Chairman and Hugo Jonas General Secretary. The annual outing is set for Chester Park on Saturday, August 18, with an elaborate program and fireworks finale. The Outing Committee includes Adams, Koestermann, Bird, Daveron, Miller, and Hughes representing multiple railroads.
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Combined
Railway Employees’ Outing Association
William F. Leonard
Hugo Jonas
Chester Park
Howard F. Adams
Charl Koestermann
Big Four
Thomas Bird
Cincinnati Southern
Thomas’ E. Daveron
Samuel E. Miller
Pennsylvania
George Hughes
Louisville & Nashville
Surprise Wedding Gift From City Department
J. A. Gordon, general manager of the C. H. D. and D., was surprised at home by colleagues from his department. Three months after his wedding, the men organized a subscription and presented a belated present, arriving quietly at his Walnut Hills residence.
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J. A. Gordon
Pennsylvania Railroad Opens Atlanta Office Under J. M. Harris
The Pennsylvania Railroad has opened a new office in the Equitable Building Atlanta Ga J M Harris formerly Assistant General Passenger Agent in Cincinnati will oversee the Atlanta office Harris retired a year ago due to ill health and can again resume railroad work opening a new operational center in the South
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Equitable
Atlanta, Ga
J. M. Harris
Cincinnati
Harris
C & O Adopts Early Morning Train Service Beginning July
The C and O will run an 8 30 morning train to the East starting July 1. About twenty five local members of the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants Union depart tonight for Pittsburg to attend the annual convention opening Monday. Other notes mention passenger men of the C H D in the city and earnings of the C N C T P rising by 46236 in May. L S Much More, Rock Island Frisco System city passenger agent, will wed Mary Sutton of Walnut Hills today then travel to New York City and points beyond.
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International Printing Pressmen and Assistants’ Union
Pittsburg
Rock Island
Virginia Silver mining case argued before Minnesota Supreme Court
The Virginia Silver case, a dispute over iron ore on state lands leased to a major company, was argued and submitted to the Minnesota Supreme Court. The pivotal issue asks whether selling ore at 25 cents per ton from state property constitutes a sale of state land, with potential reversion of leased mines to state ownership and public auction if the court so rules.
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ST. Paul
State Supreme Court
Great Steel Corporation
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